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Santiago J. Munoz, M.D., is an Associate Professor of Medicine at Jefferson Medical College of Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia. He is also Head of the Division of Hepatology, Director of the Center for Liver Diseases, and Medical Director of the Liver Transplant Program at Albert Einstein Medical Center, Philadelphia. He received his M.D. from the University of Chile’s School of Medicine, Valparaiso, Chile. Dr. Munoz completed a Research Fellowship in Gastroenterology and Hepatology at Thomas Jefferson Hospital of Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia. He also completed a Research Fellowship in Pharmacology, Experimental Therapeutics and Medicine at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland. His main research interests include acute liver failure, chronic viral hepatitis C and B, and primary biliary cirrhosis. Dr. Munoz has delivered over three hundred lectures on liver diseases in the U.S. and abroad. He is a reviewer for a number of hepatology scientific journals, a long term abstract reviewer for the AASLD and AGA, and a member of the editorial board of the leading subspecialty journal Liver Transplantation. Dr. Munoz received the Physician of the Year Award by the American Liver Foundation in 2003 and recently was named a Top Doctor by Philadelphia Magazine. | 